Short: Full, free edition of StoneTracker; disk 3/3 Author: emarty@nexwave-solutions.com (Emmanuel Marty), michael@deibus.com (Michael Lavaire) Uploader: emarty nexwave-solutions com (Emmanuel Marty) Type: mus/edit Version: 1.26-full Replaces: stone126.lha Architecture: m68k-amigaos Welcome to the full-featured yet free edition of StoneTracker. This is a music composing program, belonging to the "tracker" kind. Back then, before MP3, CD music and other formats, it was the popular way of packaging demo and game tracks. This Amiga software was written by Michael Lavaire and myself (Emmanuel Marty) in 1994-1995, and sold through a reseller, Quartz, in 1995-96. A demo (with file saving code removed) has been available on Aminet since then. Today is february 2001. By popular demand, and as a tribute to the still active Amiga communauty, the full program is re-released for free, where the demo always was, on Aminet. Michael has been contacted and also agreed to this release. StoneTracker is comparable in concept to earlier work such as ProTracker, NoiseTracker, Art Of Noise, Octamed and others, although everything has been written from scratch. The main features, taken from the original README, are : - System friendly, OS 2.0 look compliance (adding our personal touch), no enforcer hit!, installs as a commodity, AppIcon, AppMenuItem... Allocates channels, can deallocate without quitting. Compatible with all screens (PAL, VGA, multisync..) Makes use of the best features of AmigaOS and puts you in a safe environment. - Locale support. English and French are available. Feel free to add more. - "Everything on screen" and ergonomic user interface, designed together with a tracker musician. Protection against unwanted actions. - Full-featured AREXX port - Extreme configurability. - Noise/ProTracker keyboard shortcuts emulation. - Custom module format, allows compression of sample banks with three different and dedicated methods. - Import of 13 existing formats (e.g. ProTracker, FastTracker, OctaMed, Oktalyzer, ThePlayer...) - Export of ProTracker and FastTracker formats in addition to its own format (full version only) - XPK support. Passwords supported. - XFD support (allows for decrunching of more than 100 packers, like CrunchMania, StoneCracker...). - Built-in decompression routines for Powerpacker and CrunchMania (if XFD is not available). - Multi-song: 65.535 possible ! Available song-syncing commands in the player for interactive music. - Up to 65.535 patterns! Shared between songs. - Patterns seperated for each track, allowing you, for insta,ce to reuse beats, or a bass line, from a position to another ! Command for "remapping" duplicate patterns in imported modules that don't have this feature (ex. ProTracker), saving a lot of memory. - Up to 255 samples! Can be loaded in FAST memory : no size limit except the size of your fastmem. - 4 ("native") tracks or 5,6,7,8 tracks, all with configurable mixing quality, from 4 to 50 Khz (28 Khz on PAL/NTSC "basic" displays). All effects can be used in all modes, no restrictions! Mixing technique is more alike TFMX than OctaMed or ArtOfNoise resulting in high quality sound. Each song can have its own number of tracks, and you can jump from one song in 4 tracks to one in 7, for instance, without hearing a single glitch in the sound. - Each track has its own volume. General volume for the music. Master volume on top of all controlled by the programmer. - Loads samples in CHIP or FAST memory, makes no difference. - Up to SEVEN effects per note per track! - Special "FX" track with up to EIGHT effects per line, dedicated to speed and general control commands. - Extended effects! - Effect for syncing your program to the music (calls a user function when this effect is reached). Ideal for game intros, demos, etc. - Command for MIXING a position into a sample ! Make your arpeggios, drums or whatever... - Command for timing a song; no need to play the whole song to know its duration anymore. - Highly optimized routines for playing and mixing. - Player is an AmigaOS shared library, used even by the editor! - AmigaGuide Documentation in English and French (German planned). - Nice example musics in 4 to 8 tracks, composed by Jerôme Angelot, the musician who helped us designing this tracker. (more musics in the full version) - Harddisk-installation Installer script provided. - Full developer documentation for player and file format, with examples in Assembler and C, link library for SAS; you can use the player library or include the player in your programs ("system friendly" and "no operating system" (for games and demos) versions provided) - Players for DeliTracker and EaglePlayer, as well as independant player. - Editor, player and packers fully programmed in Assembler. - Constant support. Most user requests have been satisfied yet and we will continue to do so. This re-release also includes modules that weren't part of the original distribution. Composed by Mytholog using StoneTracker, they make full use of the special features available in the program. We hope you enjoy them, and send our thanks to the author, after so many years. We hope this full release will be appreciated by the undying Amiga enthusiasts. Feel free to provide these archives for download on your own site, as long as you retain this document. I recommend the following site as an excellent source of information about trackers and music formats (including StoneTracker): http://hangar18.campus.luth.se/exotica/ Thanks to Michael for agreeing on this re-release; good luck with your life. Thanks to : Nicolas Daire Laurent Clevy for bugging me enough for me to clean the dust off my Amiga and generate this re-release. -- Emmanuel Marty Montpellier, France February 12, 2001